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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Basel Ammane

Basel Ammane is a non-resident research fellow at the Council on International Policy. He is a former intern at the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC and a former editor with the Global Summitry Project. He graduated from McMaster University’s Master’s program in Globalization Studies and did his undergraduate studies in Economics and Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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Limited justice for Syria on the horizon

Basel Ammane 6 April 2018

As the long and tumultuous Syrian civil war grinds on, the cascade of death, displacement and physical destruction shows no signs of ending.

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